Hear the Wind Blow!

Fall has been a long time coming. It was cooler for a few days, became hot again, a few more cool days, then temps soaring, one day up to the 90s.

We had two cold fronts come through, one after the other. The first tempered the sun, the second brought the wind—the trees out in the yard are lashing back and forth like children throwing a tantrum, tossing pine needles like spears, and the window shades dance and the wind chimes sing—and left the sky a brilliant blue. Last night the temps went down to 50°F and, with the fans in the windows, it was a glorious sleeping night.

Now at three o'clock it is still only 65; how lovely! I can breathe! Walk without the sun and heat pounding my head and my heart like a jackhammer!

I went out at lunchtime to get a book from Borders and nipped into Lowes: Christmas galore! I was good and only bought a few small Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ornaments for my Rudolph-theme tree.

I have all the autumn decorations up now, and anticipate, if there are no disasters, putting up Hallowe'en things next week. I don't see it staying this cool (the forecast is for 80 in a week, and high 50s at night), but I'm certainly enjoying this while it lasts.

I can only hope it gets cool like this again for Hallowe'en so I won't suffocate in my cat outfit. Wondering how it will come off this year since it won't be dark at six o'clock like always due to that damnable new DST rule.